Moderator - Query regarding Tagging Question in diary of 1 Battalion King's Liverpool Regiment
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There is an entry here for a marriage between No. 11555, Private W Burke. D Coy. (Entry under Records).
“Married Ethel Field, at the Parish Church of All Saints, Leeds on the 31/8/1918”.
I have on the comments page used the tags - #next of kin and also #marriage - although we do not have a marriage tag - would this be an instance for having a #marriage tag?
Link: https://talk.operationwardiary.org/#/subjects/AWD0003q11
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cyngast
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Using the #nextofkin tag is appropriate for this. I don't think we really need an official hashtag for marriage as they seldom appear, but you could mention the marriage in the comment without using a hashtag for it. Something like "#nextofkin Pte Burke married Ethel Field on 31/8/1918."
What a neat readable list that is!
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Cyntha, PS to my message re Marriage entries.
Also 7 days ago I tagged the following page which also mentioned a marriage but did not use a tag for marriage as such. i.e. “Captain Beesley in England getting married” see 10th line under the 17th.
Unfortunately, I believe I tagged Captain Beesley as being killed in action later on and thought at that time, how sad, he had departed earlier to be married. Link: https://talk.operationwardiary.org/#/subjects/AWD0003q49
PS I could go back to this page link and tag #marriage – what do you think? Although in the comment box I made the comment “Captain Beesley in England getting married”
This is the also the Diary of the 1st Battalion King’s Liverpool Regiment.
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Cynthia, I did at the time of tagging put this entry in the comment box:-
#nextofkin #marriage No. 11555 Pte W Burke D Coy, married Ethel Field at the Parish Church of All Saints, Leeds on 31/8/1918
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cyngast
moderator
As I said above in my answer that I wrote while you were posting, I think it's fine to just use the hashtag #nextofkin and then include a comment about the specific relationship.
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Cynthia, you mention a nice readable list - thank goodness the writing is improving. It has been nice to tag readable writing for a change after tagging pages of nominal rolls appearing as orders from page 362 non stop up to the page I have just finished tagging which is 377 another nominal roll.. Quite a few of the pages have had up to a 100 men on them to tag.
Don't know how long these lists will go on for they have been appearing dated 2/7/9/10/11/13/19 Sept 1918- with continuation pages also. l am wondering if these nominal rolls will be continuing to end of Sept 1918.
I must admit though, it is good news for the Historians and others looking for names in these diaries, 1 of the main reasons of the diaries is the people who are entered.
I will just keep calm and keep tagging all the names if they continue. Hope the nice writing continues!
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ral104
moderator, scientist
Thanks for wading through all those names, Marie! Great to have them all tagged.
I agree with Cynthia - #nextofkin is the best hashtag to use when the name of a spouse is mentioned, even if it's a very new spouse.
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